Albuquerque Journal newspaper stories
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: Feds To Study Western River Basins
... Commissioner Michael Connor made the announcement Thursday while in New Mexico for a meeting of stakeholders from throughout the Colorado River basin. Connor told The Associated Press that the studies will provide a foundation for the agency to understand how warming temperatures and shifting precipitation ...
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ABQJOURNAL NORTH/OPINION: Letters To the Editor
... Irrigation District, the Interstate Stream Commission, the Bureau of Reclamation and other water users and communities along and outside the Pecos River basin. Despite this opposition it appears this project is moving forward. Here are a few reasons I believe it should not. New Mexico issues ...
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ABQJOURNAL NORTH/OPINION: Is Natural Gas the Lesser of Two Evils?
... through its worst year in recent history. Commodity prices have cratered, and not a single coal-bed methane well was drilled in Wyoming's Powder River Basin in June, welcome news to local environmental groups. For the next year or two, the nation is likely to remain awash in gas. But if the ...
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ABQJOURNAL NORTH/OPINION: Oil Shale Dreams Have To Be Big
... down to generate power. But it should be at least a break-even proposition. Is it possible to move enough rock by rail? Consider the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, where immense coal mines fill trains to fuel distant power plants, as a model. On an average day in 2005, 63 “unit trains& ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: Abandoned Marina a Sign of Major Drought
... to those seven Western states. Lake Powell's contents are the sum of the rain and snow that fall upstream, in the upper Colorado River basin, minus the human decisions to use water before it gets to Powell, or to release it for downstream use in Arizona, Nevada and California. New ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: Fish Will Have To Wait for Protection
... , July 08, 2009 Fish Will Have To Wait for Protection By Susan Montoya Bryan Associated Press A fish once found throughout the lower Colorado River Basin warrants protection under the Endangered Species Act, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday that the roundtail chub will have ...
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ABQJOURNAL NORTH: County May Supply Subdivision Water
... of the $215 million Buckman Direct Diversion project. The Buckman facility will take the area's share of San Juan-Chama water - Colorado River basin water piped to New Mexico - from the Rio Grande. County Attorney Steve Ross said the original plan was for Las Campanas to take raw ...
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